Barney Rubble

With this level of encouragement from his own supporters, he may well need his brother's prayers!!!

First goal surely?

Clarke originally gave O'Donnell permission to attend his brother's ordination in Rome. However, by the time the ordination came around, Alessio was in charge and revoked the permission.

Patterson is fast and comfortable on the ball going forward, that's true. The issue is his unproven reliability as a defender. It speaks volumes that his club manager does not trust him against even middling sides ahead of Tavernier. Until he gets regular games at first team level to improve his development as a defender, the Clarke will prefer O'Donnell for fixtures like Austria away. And right now, it's the correct decision.

Hopefully tonight finally buries the nonsense about Robertson or Tierney being adequate right backs.

Granted he usually is, however tonight his commentary has been annoyingly cliched.

According to Ally there was no doubt that it was Scotland's best move of the game.

Ally 'ah'll tell you what Ian' McCoist has been insufferable tonight.

Terrible move for Christie. Nowhere near as good as he or his father thinks he is. He'll be back at Inverness in 2-3 years.

You're entitled to your opinion on SOD as a footballer but the moron comment is needless and unwarranted. It's the medical staff that have a serious question to answer in this instance.

Did you have to??

Charlie doing what he did best without the Stones on this one.

It's hard to know what on earth is going through people's heads a) doing it and b) allowing themselves to be filmed doing it. Assuming all three have jobs, that's three careers and three futures ripped up and thrown into a bin. As they will find out when they turn up to work today.

Wouldn't use them anyway, but especially not when the clear advice is not to travel. Save your money, and have a few more beers in your local while watching the game. And I say that as a regular traveller to away games pre-pandemic.

Any international travel is a risk at present. Caveat emptor.

I wasn't being serious about Ralston. As things stand, he's not an upgrade on O'Donnell. If Patterson doesn't get games and Ramsay continues his impressive start, then Ramsay should at least be called into the squad for Clarke to have a closer look.

Anthony Ralston seems intent on mounting a challenge....................................😉

Vertical drinking.

Upvote from me.

OK have it your way. Ukraine were absolute non-entities and our result against them, despite their status at that time, can be discounted. Does that sound better?

In the interests of balance, had a look at their record in detail: Including WC 2006, 2006 - 2008 all games (34) Lost to Spain, Italy x 2 , France, Scotland and Netherlands - no other losses. Several decent draws (Italy, France), but no victories against high ranked sides. So in fairness, perhaps their ranking was skewed by WC 2006 performance. Still taking it as a significant scalp for Scotland at that time though - because it was!!

No, fully intended for this thread. No mistake, they were a top-tier side at the time, and not just because of Shevchenko.

Ukraine were certainly top tier material 2005 - 2008.

They were WC QF the year before. Damn right it was a bloody good result - even more so in the context of the composition of the group.

Denmark winning Euro 92 was a stunning achievement by any standards. And that'll be Belgium who were runners up in Euro 80, and third in WC 86 and 18 (beating England to achieve it in the latter case) - ahead of England in all three of those tournaments? You've not really thought this through have you?